War is an unnatural disaster

By adamg on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 9:09am

Says so right here on Southampton Street.

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Another nitpicky neighborhood boundary comment...

By eeka on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 10:29am.

Not Roxbury! Southampton Street is 02118 until the expressway, then is 02127 once it crosses over. Not positive what the ZIP code of the land where the billboard is, but the photo was taken from the South End.

(FWIW, the prison is South End 02118 and the South Bay mall is Dorchester 02125. Those three neighborhoods all intersect right in that area, but you have to go over onto Melnea Cass to be in Roxbury. Bostonwhat.)

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Actually...

By Neal on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 8:32pm.

Neighborhood designations aren't set by the Postal Service. I live in the South End, part of which has the ZIP Code 02118. According to Mr. ZIP, Boston or Roxbury are acceptable place names for 02118, a good chunk of the South End is in 02116, where Mr. ZIP says the only acceptable place name is Boston. Property descriptions on deeds are a pretty reliable source and usually state the neighborhood of the property. Also Bromley Maps, which are available online and at the Land Court are a pretty good tool for seeing what neighborhood is where. The Newmarket area, according to this very simplified BRA map, appears to be in North Dorchester. I couldn't find an overlay of that map that showed streets, but some of the neighborhood borders appear to be streets.

Oh, I know they're not...

By eeka on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 10:07am.

...but the ones the city website uses seem to match up fairly well with the ZIP codes.